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By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly
August 1 at 3:00 AM
Because of summer vacation schedules, we had fallen a month behind in updating The Fact Checkers database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.
It turns out thats when the president decided to turn on the spigots of false and misleading claims. As of day 558, hes made 4,229 Trumpian claims an increase of 978 in just two months. Thats an overall average of nearly 7.6 claims a day.
When we first started this project for the presidents first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day. But the average number of claims per day keeps climbing the longer Trump stays in office. In fact, in June and July, the president averaged 16 claims a day.
Put another way: In his first year as president, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims. Now, just six months later, he has almost doubled that total.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/08/01/president-trump-has-made-4229-false-or-misleading-claims-in-558-days/
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Gothmog
(145,353 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Gothmog
(145,353 posts)Never thought of that!!
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)4229 lies in 18 months.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican lies are dangerous for America
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republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Cha
(297,339 posts)Persondem
(1,936 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,202 posts)To him, it's a patterned and well-honed natural choice
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,513 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,513 posts)3.14159....
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... President Trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days ...
... and these are just the public statements ...
tclambert
(11,087 posts)The so-called "fact checkers" just hate believers. So it's really your lack of faith that's the problem.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)about this is how he has been able to condition his cult to believe whatever he says even though he's a pathological liar. He tells them to not trust anything any non-RW media say about him, and that they're the "enemy", and FOX has them believing what they want them to. Critical thinking and intellectualism have gone out the window in the GOP.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And just watch this video of a John Hopkins psychiatrist taking about what he is suffering from. On You Tube search Psychiatrist: Trump mental Urgently Deteriorating from an interview on The David Pakman Show, and its worth a watch.
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)And the whole group around him is covering for him. They are trying desperately to assure the American people while still covering.
How long is it going to take to get one brave soul to stand up and say, This President is mentally ill and needs to be taken down!
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)red dog 1
(27,821 posts)He lied all through the 2016 presidential campaign.
He even lies about little things.
When asked about his "sniveling" during his first debate with Hillary, he denied that he was sniveling, or had a cold, and blamed the sniveling sound on a "bad microphone"
But he was sniveling during the second debate as well.
Another "bad mic"?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)He gets away with lying
WaPo tracker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/trumps-last-press-conference/2140/
duforsure
(11,885 posts)djacq
(1,634 posts)Orange Clown's nose would surpass be a sequoia (redwood tree) by now.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,688 posts)the man is probably awake at least 10 hrs a day. Translating to at least 40 lies a day. And that would be absolute minimum.
Not a chance Mango can get 15 min without a lie.
If he drags it out of bed before noon one day to go play pattyfingers with Vlad then plan on a minimum of 200 lies that day.
Baitball Blogger
(46,744 posts)don't understand what we're talking about.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Why don't they understand? His supporters do not want or care about Trump telling those lies
.... They do not want to understand....
The deep down Trumpers, those that will follow him forever, are like the true followers of Hitler and every other dictator that has ever lived or will live. The follower's "hate" is Trump's "hate." It is one of the same.
Baitball Blogger
(46,744 posts)Now, what do we do to protect ourselves from willfully abject stupid people? That's the big question.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I think folks can just report that he lies constantly, provide a few of the most obvious examples, and the point is made.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 5, 2018, 11:20 PM - Edit history (1)
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,175 posts)Surely he's cracked 5000 by now